Judgement night: A German finds himself with a sense of impending doom on the deck of a British steamship; The purple testament: A lieutenant discovers he has the ability to see which of his men is going die next simply by looking at them; The obsolete man: A librarian is judged by the Chancellor to be obsolete in a future where books and religion have been banned; A quality of mercy: A soldier gets a new perspective on war when he is forced to experience it from his enemy's point of view.